Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1887-05-05
IN THE MIDDLE WEST.
a Story Of Life in the Greas
Mississippi Valley. q.
BY ALvA MILTON KERR
tCorrRiGHT, 1854, ny THE A. N. KELLOGG
NEWSPAPER CoNPANYl
CHAPTER xxIv.-cnrrrrrrn.

CHAPTER XXIv.-CovrtSUEp
Celeste laughed despite her enlisted
sympathy.
Besides" no said, "men must at
nst learn that cnnui, IL not something
worse, lies inevitably at the end of
luxury. That a fair taste OF most
things in this world Is better than com.
plcto qualification. Thea again. while
men are unriddling other problems of
existence, this ono of mans
inequality of condition 10 thrust
ing itself into our very faces
and must and win bo explored and
solved. II can never be reached
through anarchy and blood. but only
by the warm currents OF educated love
melting human seliishness away and
tho gentle fingers of pity at the worlds
pursc-strings. As man advances he
Snust surely come TO soc that more than
he wholcsomely needs Is only care
md weight to him and that in COM
E4on decency it should go TO those who
need IL We are all unclothed and
equal at birth, all members of one
family. why should we scheme and
cheat and bascly befool each other out
of life's common hciitaru?N
They all got down In Eden Park 10
sec the sun set The two elder ladies
remained upon the hillside resting in a
rustic seat, and still farther exploring
the question suggested. Mrs. Gleason
YVES In ferment lest such philosophy
might strain and perhaps break the
fine lines of 0ristocracy, and was rath-
er more rufiied than soothed when
Mrs. Brayton thought that, while il
might be fatal 10 the aristooracy of
wealth, it would be the making OF the
nristocracy of virtue and brains. Then
Mrs. Gleason was worried, too, that
such scheme Of equality would render
the carrying forward OF great wealth
from generation to generation by one
Family impossible, and was but little
modified when Mrs. Brayton offered
The thought that perhaps that very
thing was the Vei tehra of the Kingship
Of Dollars, and should be broken: and
further, that the bcqueathing of wealth
10 ones offspring, in any case, was
usually curse to them, since If they
held 10 and augmented it they were
left no commonality Of feeling with the
poor, and If they squandcred it. as was
mostly the case, they generally went
down In the wreck, diseased, and every
way unfit for life.
, sirs. Gleason looked discouraged in
deed, as she tapped her shining boot
upon the ground and gazcd away where
the canopy Of smoke, here and there
shot through with slanting sunshine.
hung over the toiling city. Mrs. Bray
ton leaned back and watched her with
n smile on her pleasant face. Never
mind" she said, ''such goodness
among men viii scarcely be popular in
our day, nor perhaps during the lives
of those soft-hearted children dream
ing up there, though hope it may"
and she turned and waved her hand to
Celeste and John Earling where they
sat upon the crown OF the green ac-
clivit',.
! Ali it is deep world. as Celeste
had said, and that which broods above
and moves il is Love itself; though not
always can its clear beams, turned
aside by lowering shapes Of greed and
lust come through the vulture- wings
and touch us or shine through onr
deadened, glulted spirits into lovely
action.
To John Earling the touch OF her
dress was sweet. and the light laying
OF her hand upon his, as she pointed 10
something in the landscape. filled him
with pleasure as clean as the sunshine.
"Lookl she said, "what burst Of
Funshine" and indeed the world was
Hooded dlyinely, as the great orb
swung down out Of the silyer-rimmed
clouds and hung burning close above
the far of tree-tOps. "It brings
sunset 10 me of long ago" she said;
" 1t seems so bright and definite in my
memory, ] suppose, because i was
child. 1t was when | was little girl.
i remember, and mamma and / went
Grandpa Snaer's in New York State. !
He lived on the upper Hudson, and |
upon that evening am speaking Of, |
remember he took my hand and we |
walked across a pasture west of the |
house, and from a high swell Of ground |
we watched the sun 90 down. He was
gray and bsnt. / remember, and not /
very strong; and when we had looked /
n long time at the light slanting along
the hills, much as il does here, tears 4
came into his eyes. and / asked him
why he cried. He will never come;
j shall never see him, he said. we
parted in wrath, aud he will never
come backr Then ! asked him who
he was speaking OF and he said, l re-
how mOurnfully; 'Ivyl, my
only son and your mothers only
brother, my child lie went away To
the West when he was a boy, there
where the sun Is going. and have
mover seen him since. Your mother
was only a baby when he left; ohl /
wish he had only been like herl had
only been like herr Then remember
cried, J. hardly knew why, and the
next morning when they went 10
wakon my grandfather he was dead. 1
shall never forget Il, aud often when
look at the sun set. l wonder II the sun
eNhcre doesn't still 90 over that
Nanderer ere Il reaches tho western
.car
In her absorption she did not notice
how John Earring started ia tho midst
n what she waa saying. and now when
he glanced mp she only half con-
lcionsly saw that his face was white.
y II a great foar had crossed him. aud
hal he was staring az her IN a dazed
Fat.
'Mhl," " sho began. with enduring
yondeE ~ living, he IS my only near
rlailan, sisn Mira Bower, Ol Open-